[LMB] Re: OT: Prep and Finishing School

[B. Ross Ashley]

On Thu, 27 Jul 2006 02:31:27 +0000, "Joel Polowin" <jpolowin at hotmail.com>
wrote:
> "James Burbidge" <james.burbidge at gmail.com> wrote:

>>Chemistry is a latecomer.  Post-Lavoisier.
>>
>>The liberal arts are (or were):
>>
>>Grammar, Rhetoric, Logic, Arithmetic, Music, Astronomy, Geometry.
>  
>

> Reeling, writhing, fainting in coils...

Shouldn't that be "reeling and writhing with rhythmic clicks"? 

Seriously, though, I thought the Liberal Arts were the Trivium (Grammar, Rhetoric, Logic) and the Quadrivium (Arithmetic, or number in itself; Geometry, or number in space; Music, number in time; and Cosmology, number in space and time.) http://www.cosmopolis.com/villa/liberal-arts.html

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